St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-18


this is earlier in the season than they are in
the habit Of showing up here, and Mr.. and
Mrs. FLORENCE do not yet feel the fatigue
that must necessarily result from many weeks
OF continuous stage work, or whatever the
cause may have been, one thing is certain,
these old time favorites gave evidences of de-
cided rejuvenation, and played with all the
snap and vim during the past weeks engage
ment that they exhibited twenty years ago.
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Mr.. FLORENCE put on his new play, "Uncle
Bob,' on Thursday night and made a hit
with it His is the first effort to lift the
ranchman from the melodramatic hero of the
dime novel style to the plane of pure COM
edy. And he makes q success of it. Mr.
FLoRENcE's Uncle Bob is character of gen.
uine artistic creation. 1t is going to have a
big run, and the time is not far distant when
Uncle Bob will be as familiar to American
play-goers as his picturesque brothers,
BARDwELL SLorE and Our Governor.
The power of physical endurance that
stage people possess is something wonder
ful. Of all the vast crowd who saw Mrs.
FLORENCE play the character of Mrs Mai
BROWN in Uncle Bob' the other night, not
one suspected that the poor wowan was suf-
fering the tortures of physical pain. Yet it
was so. She was nearly distracted from an
acute attack of neuralgia in the rim of the
ear but when the time came for her to go on
the stage she went with smile on her face
and flash of humor in her eyes lust as if
every nerve in her body was in flow of peace
ful melody. when was reciting descrip-
ton OF the hunting scene,'' said Mrs. FLOR
ENCE when speaking of it afterwards ''it
seemed to me that there were four Mr. FLOR
ENcEs on the stage and the audience seemed
to be on their heads and going around in
whlrl never suffered such agony in nv
life, and how got through with my part I
don't Know And yet the audience, wholly
unconscious of her sufferings, was applaud
ing her to the echo
"Do you know, but of course not, how
could you" said Mrs FLORENCE ssthat while
was at home during my late vacation l got
out an old journal in which used to record
anything saw in my travels which made a
particular impression on me- CHANGING over
this old memorandum of past events, found
mad devoted unusual space to a description
OF my first visit to st. Paul. That was in the
year-but wont tell you when it was" and
smile stole athwart the bright face as she
SOhIlhuCd, LOU huOW Tic people OF t., Paul
are little sensitive about the city's age and
If give you the date of my first visit here it
might make st. Paul appear to be older than
Minneapolis. 1t is sufficient to say that st.
Paul was not as large city then as it is now.
What 1 want to call your attention
to is the statement I then made
In my journal concerning the enterprise
and public spiritedness that l saw mani
rested here at that time, and the prediction
made that st. Paul was in time to be 1.-THE
New York OF the West. That prophesy is in
rapid process of fulfllment, and if YOU BRO
gress as rapidly in the future as you have in
the last five years. expect to see its com
plete fulillment.''
The attraction of the coming week at the
Grand is the w. G. Gilmore's spectacular
performance familiarly known as the
Dev1ls Auction" under the management
OF Charles H. Yale. This is the sixth CON
tinuous season of this well known spectacu-
lar play. and the fact that it still holds its
own in spite of the interstate commerce law
is evidence of its popularity. There is
great deal of scenery required in the pro-
duction of the play, as well as large cast of
artists, all of which makes it an expensive
establishment. 1.-THE DEVILS Auction''I is
one OF the few spectacular companies that
has sufficient confidence in its own merit to
risk the road under the pressure of the inter-
state law.
SIR CHARLES YOUNG, the author of 'tJim
the Penman," died suddenly in London last
Monday night. His admirable play is one OF
the few dramatic successes of this age, and
will be a lasting monument to its authors
| memory.
In speaking of the failure of the National
| Opera company Mr.. CHARLES LOCKE, the late
manager, complains that his own salary was
| only $1,000 month. We don't know any.
| thing about Mr.. LocKE's managerial ability,
| but we do know that the manager of an opera
company who only gets 81 900 month is in
| tough lines.
| THEODORE THOMAS received 81, 900 week
| for leading the orchestra of the National
| Opera company. In the language of music
| THOMAS had pudding. II is no wonder that
| the singers didn't get their salaries when
LOCKE and THOMAS and Mrs. THURBER were
| bagging the persimmons in that kind of style.
| Manager LOCKE has reorganized the com
| pany with the fossils left out and an addition
| of new and more attractive people, He an
nounces his purpose to apportion the sal
| aries to the real qualification of the singers.
| If he carries out this idea the American
| Opera company may yet be success.
~
LAWRENCE BARRETT has the reputation of
| being the most avaricious manager in the
| business. He skins his patrons for the lvst
cent, and is a sort of a holy terror to theater
managers. His combination with BOOTH
this year makes a strong team, and he is
| working 1t for all that is in it. He refused to
book an engagement in st. Paul and Mime
! apolis for less than ninety per cent. of the
gross receipts. He gets sixty-five per cent. of
| the gross receipts i'll Chicago.
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Mr.. BOOTH is just the reverse of Mr.. Bar
RETT in business methods. BooTH doesn't
| even take the trouble to look over his ac-
| counts. He takes what is paid over to him
without questioning. There is a marked diff
| ference between BOOTH and BARRETT in an
| other particular. There isn't particle of
| jealousy in BooTH's nature. BARRETT is
| said to be chock full of it. The story of his
| falling out with LOUIS JAMES because the latI
ter received SO much applause, is part of
the theatrical history of the country In
! further illustration of Mr.. BARRETT's Jealous
disposition there is current story that re-
Gently theater manager, in whose house the
combination is soon to play, had some bills
printed in which the space was limited and
| BARRETTs name was set in smaller letters
! than BooTH's. This made Mr. BARRETT
quite indignant, and the bills had to be re-
printed. He gave the unlucky manager to
understand that BOOTH was not to be adver
tised to the world as bigger man than him
self, even if he is his father-in-law.
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| CHARLES CoGHLAN, who recently Withdrew
from Mrs. LANGTRy's company on account of
difference of opinion, of which he and she
know better than any one else the cause, has
| engaged as leading man with A. M, PALMER